My hide away...

for when the wife is

Breaking ground today, ive been without a garage since 2012... and that's too dang long!!!

Gonna be 24' wide 35' deep with a 20x24 carport out front, and two 10'x12' doors.

Can't wait to see pics as it goes up....

Insulate it!!!!

Make it 36' and you'll waste less wood.

Gonna be all steel. I asked my contractor if it would make a difference to be 35/36 he said nope. Hope to have it foam insulated some day, but not from the get go.

Sweet!

Thanks, im stoked

Yeah!! A new place to store stuff

That metal is gonna be hot, and cold. How you gonna heat it? You got NG or propane? I have a solution for you.

sounds like a good hide away

Only gas it will have is natural all right

It will be heated with memories of summer and cooled with a fan... well at least the moving air will make you feel better about sweating so much.

Very nice Matt I'm jealous

Cant wait to see the build.

Keep the pics coming

Look into the foam insulation real good. My cousin rebuilds Aircraft carbs/fuel injection units and has a hanger at an airport for a shop. Last year,the hanger closest to him got hit by lightning and the spray on foam insulation it had was pretty flammable.The entire hanger burnt to the ground with several million dollars worth of antique aircraft inside it.

My metal shed is double insulated (not foam) and it has two south-north facing roll up doors. That breeze makes a huge difference. It'll get warm but not too hot. Of course, I have two A/C'd bedrooms that we can escape to.

What builder you going with?

I need a metal building so bad

Come to think of it, I just need to move out of the suburbs

Excellent!

Im not sure if he has a company name or not, he builds around the San Antonio area. He is a friend of my brothers BIL. I can get you his contact info if you want, send me a PM, not sure what areas he covers though.

What they got done yesterday. I thought they would have gotten more, but had to soak the ground to drive the 2x4's. Ground is HARD, ive had to dig holes in it before and I feel their pain.

Looking good

Thanks, im ready to have it done!

Watched the news last night and they had projected a chance of rain through Thursday

Moisture Conditioned...Whats your Compaction Percentage

Your not speaking my language

And it just started sprinkling

At 35' you have to cut 1' of the width of a sheet off but can use 20' perlins in one bay and cut 30' purlins in half to make the 15' bay, at 36' you get all the coverage of your sheet metal but have to much scrap left in purlins. You have to buy a 3' wide sheet wether you use 1' or all 3' of the width...

https://youtu.be/2Bl3_EWCJzU

As of today when I got home.

If you could find it in your budget to insulate just the ceiling it will make a big difference in comfort level during the summer time. Good luck. Also Hope your doors are 12' wide and 10' tall. It is hard to back a trailer into a 10' wide door. 10' tall require 12' walls. That is if your using sectional overhead doors. If you have any questions on overhead doors send me a pm. That is what I do for a living.

gonna be awesome

The doors are two 10' wide by 12' tall, building is 14-foot eve height. I don't think it will be too bad to get a trailer in there.

I considered a single 16 foot door but decided against it.

Thanks jshouse, im a tinkerer by nature and its been killing me to not have a garage, im gonna love it.

Ready for concrete this morning. Hopefully will be poured when I get home!



Hopefully have steel going up early next week.

Making good progress.

That's what I like

Wow, they're moving along quickly. Very cool watching your hideaway go up. Will try to find and post some pics of my place.

Thanks, but no thanks. There are plenty of those "companies" at my local Home Depot.

I would have run a beam down the center, end to end

Love to see this stuff. I also would have run some pex tubing for water.

Mans got to have a cave to get away to...... sure like mine!!!!!

Surely they peeled the grass of existing groud? What size compactor did they use?

Very nice

Poured the slab last Friday.





I put some stub in's so I can run electric to my sub panel and a water line/drain too and from a shop sink. That's all I will have in it.

I didn't find him in the home depot parking lot.